And when Saul set out with the army, he said: Lo! Allah will try you by (the ordeal of) a river. Whosoever therefore drinketh thereof he is not of me, and whosoever tasteth it not he is of me, save him who taketh (thereof) in the hollow of his hand. But they drank thereof, all save a few of them. And after he had crossed (the river), he and those who believed with him, they said: We have no power this day against Goliath and his hosts. But those who knew that they would meet Allah exclaimed: How many a little company hath overcome a mighty host by Allah's leave! Allah is with the steadfast — Pickthall
Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse (d. 1975) read the whole Qurʾān aloud at Medina Baye over fifty-six sessions between ẓuhr and ʿaṣr in Ramaḍān 1383/1964, and his students wrote those sessions down as Fī Riyāḍ al-Tafsīr. He comes back to the same āya elsewhere — in the fatwās, the Ḥikam, the poetry — decades apart. About the tafsīr →
In the printed edition: Sūrat Al-Baqara begins at vol. 1, p. 54(Tūnis 2022, 10 vols.)
The āya above is Warsh ʿan Nāfiʿ, the rasm of the printed edition. The root behind each underlined word comes from a Ḥafṣ ʿan ʿĀṣim corpus, realigned to this Warsh text word by word; 125 of the 6,236 āyāt differ in word count between the two riwāyāt, and those were aligned rather than assumed. A word carries no underline where the corpus supplies no root. Lexicon entries are a reading aid and carry no page reference; the edition does not cite them. Page references elsewhere on this site follow the ten-volume Tunis 2022 printing this site was transcribed from; published scholarship on this text cites the six-volume Tunis 2010 printing, whose pagination is different.
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Fī riyāḍ al-tafsīr li-l-Qurʾān al-karīm
في رياض التفسير للقرآن الكريمtafsīr
1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 6, ¶114 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 1, p. 167 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
(تَحْمِلُهُ الْمَلِّئِكَةُ) إذا رأيتم الملائكة تحمل هذا الصندوق حتى تضعه بين يدي طالون فهذا علامة ملكه (إِنَّ فِى ذَلِكَ لآيَةً لَكُمُ ) على ملكه (إِن كُنْتُم مُومِنِينَ)) فحملته الملائكة بين السماء والأرض وهم ينظرون حتى وضعته عند طالوت فأقروا بملكه وتسارعوا إلى الجهاد فاختار من شبابهم سبعين ألفا وقَلَمَّا قَصَلَ) خرج وطَالُوتُ بِالْجُنُودِ) من بيت المقدس وكان حرا شديدا وطلبوا منه الماء (قَالَ إِنَّ أللَّهَ مُبْتَلِيكُم) مختبركم ( بِنَهَرَ ليظهر المطيع منكم والعاصي وهو بين الأردن وفلسطين[65] (قَمَل شَرِبَ مِنْهُ) من مائه (قَلَيْسَ مِنّ) من أتباعي (وَمَى لَمْ يَطْعَمْهُ) يذقه (فَإِنَّهُۥ مِنِّيَ إِلَّا مَنِ اِ۪غْتَرَفَ غَرْفَةَۢ بِيَدِهِۦۖ) فاكتفى بِها ولم يزد عليها فإنه مني ( قَشَرِبُوا مِنْهُ لما وافوا النهر شربوا بكثرة (إلاَّ فَلِيلًا مِنْهُمْ) اقتصر على الغرفة، روي أنّها كفتهم من شربهم ودوابّهم وكانوا ثلاثمائة وبضعة عشر عدد أهل بدر وعدد الرسل[66] (فَلَمَّا جَاوَزَهُۥ هُوَ وَالذِينَ …
Entries are grouped by what Shaykh Ibrāhīm is doing with the verse, then ordered oldest first inside each group, so the same words can be seen carrying different work across a career. Every entry names the witness it comes from and how well attested the attribution is. Loci that are known but not yet available are listed rather than hidden. Beyond Fī Riyāḍ al-Tafsīr, 156 āyāt have so far been indexed from his other writings — the Ḥikam, the fatwās, Kāshif al-Ilbās, theQanābīl, the Tafsīr Maʿānī cassettes. A verse with nothing under this heading has not been searched in them and found wanting; it has not been searched.